Best Barkley Quotes & Sayings

Any time a little midget does something like this, you gotta give him a 10!. — Charles Barkley

Christian is going to be the strongest man in the NBA next year, because all he's been doing all summer is carrying around the luggage for 11 guys. — Charles Barkley

I want to be a politician. I think I understand how the system works, I think a lot of politicians are corrupt, and it's about time we put some people in there who are going to look out for the majority of the people instead of the rich people. — Charles Barkley

I think it sucks that in our country [the USA] there is such a double standard education-wise. Which part of the city you live in, or something like that, determines if you'll be successful, and that's not fair. — Charles Barkley

Only poor people go to jail. — Charles Barkley

Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter's old enough to take care of that herself. — Charles Barkley

I don't listen to the refs. I don't listen to anyone who makes less money than I do. — Charles Barkley

I don't mess with that cat. I'm pretty sure he carries a blade under his jersey. — Charles Barkley

Kids are great. That's one of the best things about our business, all the kids you get to meet. It's a shame they have to grow up to be regular people and come to the games and call you names. — Charles Barkley

Although the terms teaching and learning are typically paired, those of us who teach know that students don't always learn. When I complained about this early in my teaching career, a colleagues chided me: "Saying 'I thaught the students something, they just didn't learn it' is akin to saying 'I sold them the car, they just didn't but it'". — Elizabeth F. Barkley

I wasn't at all surprised when Cinderella gave me the finger. — Brad Barkley

As long as anti-gay legislation exists in any state, I strongly believe big events such as the Final Four and Super Bowl should not be held in those states' cities. — Charles Barkley

But when I see a story on welfare on television, they only show black people. — Charles Barkley

They always try to make it like jocks discriminate against gay people. I've been a big proponent of gay marriage for a long time, because as a black person, I can't be in for any form of discrimination at all. — Charles Barkley

I May Be Wrong but I Doubt It. — Charles Barkley

Everybody in the world has an ego. The only difference between us is we have a reason to have an ego. — Charles Barkley

This place? Nothing positive. OK, I want to say something positive. It's positively a dump. — Charles Barkley

He's got to bring something stronger than that. That's like bringing milk to a bar, it's not strong enough — Charles Barkley

People say I eat a lot. I really don't. More or less I just eat all the time. — Charles Barkley

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall. — Warren Moon

Everybody in New York thinks the Knicks are Playboy bunnies, and I have been telling them for years the Knicks are a rabbit. They're closer to a Playboy bunny this year but for the last few years these guys are like, 'We have a really good team!' And I say, 'You really think that?' And I say, 'No, they don't.' But this is the best team they've had in a while. — Charles Barkley

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk. — Alben W. Barkley

If you can't slam with the best, then jam with the rest — Charles Barkley

The best definition that I heard of that is that a bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job that a Republican wants. — Alben W. Barkley

They don't let many black people in the governor's mansion in Alabama, unless they're cleaning. — Charles Barkley

Listen to your heart more than your head. This motto will get you in trouble, but it's never boring. — Brad Barkley

You couldn't do it with him because Rhodes wasn't the one ... Furious Barkley is. Furi — A.E. Via

I'm really disturbed about the gay marriage thing. Because I think gay people should get married, cause it's their own business ... Because as a Black man, I think you've got to be against any form of discrimination. — Charles Barkley

I'm never embarassed. — Charles Barkley

I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag. — Charles Barkley

I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them. — Charles Barkley

Okay, Ella. Is it possible for you to be any more vague?"
"Maybe," I say, smiling at her. — Brad Barkley

You asked me if I believed in magic, and I said yes, and that's how. You just step out, start pulling your life out of the air. You make friends, you find work you really like doing, you find places. You find diners and Laundromats. You find beaches. You find a junk car and drive it for a month, then lave it beside the road. You find someone to fall in love with you. You make it all up as you go. Or, you know, maybe it makes you up. — Brad Barkley

I know a lot of people did a lot of heavy lifting to make me successful and I do everything in my power not to screw it up. — Charles Barkley

I never would say a player stinks. Ever. I'll tell you their team stinks, and first of all, they know their team stinks. And the fans know their team stinks. — Charles Barkley

All of it seems like noise and false light, and all I want for tonight is quiet, the black and gray of a summer night, and a girl in a pink dress, beside me forever. — Brad Barkley

I believe thinking about being old or even dying eradicates that fear. Fear can control you or you can control it; it's a conscious decision. A life lived with fear doesn't sound that enjoyable to me. — Peter James Barkley

See, my hope and dream is that people have a good time watching basketball. It's not church. It's not serious. — Charles Barkley

On game days, I could be in the worst mood imagiable-a really bad mood. But sometimes, I'd get a call from the Make-A-Wish Foundation-there would be people, sometimes kids, who anted to meet me before they died. And the foundation would call on a game day and say, "There's kid dying here whose last wish is to see you. Can you just come and see him?" I'd get there and sometimes the kid would be comatose. One day, a kid woke up for a split second and smiled at me. I was told he'd been hanging on. The mom and dad called me later and said, "I don't know what yu did to him, but those few moments were wonderful." And I cried all the way to the game, just cried my eyes out.
It's very scary. It's uplifting, too, but so scary. And then ... I'm bitching because my breakfast is cold? — Charles Barkley

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person. — Charles Barkley

I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth. — Alben W. Barkley

All I know is, as long as I led the Southeastern Conference in scoring, my grades would be fine. — Charles Barkley

What I try to do is, I just want the fans to enjoy the game. — Charles Barkley

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. — Charles Barkley